Morgan Freeman To Play Colin Powell In Biopic Directed By Reginald HudlinPosted by Wilson Morales
October 19, 2017
Source: THR
According to THR, Morgan Freeman is set to play former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell in the new biopic Powell that will be directed by Reginald Hudlin for Ashok Amritraj‘s Hyde Park Entertainment and Revelations Entertainment.
The film will be produced by Amritraj and Lori McCreary from Revelations Entertainment. The script was written by Ed Whitworth and was on the Black List in 2011.
Powell is set during the time Colin Powell was the Secretary of State for George W. Bush. It will reportedly tell the story of Powell’s lead-up to his UN presentation. Powell was a four star general in the United States Army and became the first African-American Secretary of State. Though he first believed that Saddam Hussein didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, he eventually testified that he did at the United Nations Security Council. The evidence was later discredited.
The film will be executive produced by Hyde Park’s Priya Amritraj and Addison Mehr, as well as Freeman with Revelations Kelly Mendelsohn.
Freeman, who won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby, has played real life individuals in the past. He played Joe Louis Clark in Lean On Me and Nelson Mandela in Invictus.
Huddling just directed the Thurgood Marshall film “Marshall,” in which Chadwick Boseman plays the title character.
Colin Powell will be a character in another upcoming film. Tyler Perry will play the role in the upcoming untitled Dick Cheney film from Adam McKay.
